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AI was responsible for the fake quotes in the Megalopolis trailer
Adam Driver in Megalopolis. | Screenshot: YouTube So, all those faked review quotes from the Megalopolis trailer that got pulled last week were apparently AI, after all. Not only that, but the person who was in charge of the materials for the trailer, Eddie Egan, has been removed from the movie’s marketing team. That’s all…
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Telegram says CEO has ‘nothing to hide’ after being arrested in France
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. | Getty Images Telegram says its CEO and founder Pavel Durov has “nothing to hide” after he was arrested by French authorities outside of Paris. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the company says in an unnamed statement posted…
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Formula 1’s new gyro camera adds a Dutch angle to the Dutch Grand Prix
Formula 1 racer Lando Norris in Bahrain in 2022. | Photo: Hasan Bratic / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Formula 1 broadcast footage from the Dutch Grand Prix qualifiers at Circuit Zandvoort this weekend that was captured by a gyro camera system mounted above the helmet of the weekend’s race winner, Lando Norris. The camera,…
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Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang album copies
Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli must turn over his copies of The Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album to comply with a preliminary injunction issued Friday morning by federal Judge Pamela Chen in an ongoing lawsuit, ArtNet reported. PleasrDAO, the NFT collective that currently owns Shaolin,…
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French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is reportedly in custody after being arrested near Paris Saturday evening as he was departing his private jet. The billionaire was apprehended on a warrant related to a preliminary investigation, writes Reuters. French authorities believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal…
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Canoo is down to one co-founder as its CTO reportedly leaves
Image: Canoo EV startup Canoo has lost co-founder and chief technology officer Sohel Merchant and is moving its operations out of Los Angeles, according to two reports from TechCrunch this week, citing unnamed sources. Merchant took over the CTO position in 2021, when the company’s CTO left, along with two other co-founders. One of those…
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What’s in a productivity system?
You can learn a lot about somebody just by learning about how they get things done. Are they the sort of person who might have a perfectly color-coded email inbox, a flawlessly organized to-do list, and what’s that, they just sent you a calendar invite for happy hour next week? Or are they more likely…
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The best smartphone photos of the year
Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 49, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like podcasts, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about upstart baseball teams…
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European iPhones are more fun now
We got game emulators in the app store, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair. They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators,…
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NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission
Image: NASA NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the…